The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC) has announced the awarding of $13,000 in grant funding to ten recipients at its Annual Meeting held on July 30, 2025. These grants support research, publications, and projects that preserve and share the rich history of the Episcopal Church and the broader Anglican Communion. Since the inception of its grants program in 1988, HSEC has awarded over $500,000 in funding to scholars, historians, and institutions dedicated to Episcopal and Anglican historical work.

Applications for funding are reviewed by the Society’s Grants and Research Committee, with final approval made by the Board of Directors. Grants are funded through the organization’s annual budget, with additional awards made possible by contributions by HSEC members.

Recipients are encouraged to share their findings through Anglican and Episcopal History, the Society’s peer-reviewed quarterly journal. Further information about the grants program is available at hsec.us/grants .

The 2025 grant recipients and their areas of research are:

·       Brian Douglas (Charles Sturt University; Cranberra, Australia): for studying the Eucharist in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

·       Episcopal Peace Fellowship (Rev. Kerith Harding, Episcopal Church): for updating Cross Before Flag publication of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship (this amount should fund their student researcher).

·       Corinna Hill (University of Rochester; Rochester, NY, USA): for research on Ephphatha Guild in Rochester, a deaf ministry, affiliated with several Episcopal churches in Rochester.

·       Anna James (Lambeth Research Degree in Theology): for doctoral research traveling to theological libraries to study their development from the nineteenth-century through the present.

·       Kevin Kostin (SUNY Buffalo; Buffalo, NY): for doctoral research on 19^th c. Black and Indigenous clergy in the Episcopal Church.

·       Theodora Moyse-Peck (University of Cambridge, Newnham College; Cambridge, England): for MPhil research on Coptic Orthodox and Arab Anglicans.

·       Phil Sinitiere (College of Biblical Studies; Houston, TX): to continue research on the Rev. William Howard Melish and W.E.B. Du Bois.

·       Valeria Vergani (Stanford University; Stanford, CA, USA): for doctoral research on Episcopal bishop William Swing and interfaith understanding in the wake of 9/11.

·       Abby Wasserman (independent scholar) and Kathy Grieb (Virginia Theological Seminary; Alexandria, VA, USA): for research on oral history of women’s ordination in the Episcopal Church.

·       Lauren Winner (Duke Divinity School; Durham, NC, USA): for research on the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross.